I started running in the fall of 2007. I truly believe I was inspired to start running and I have seen some very big blessings come my way because of following that inspiration.
Ran Boston Marathon 2013 & 2014. My favorite PRs: 2011 at the SG 1/2 and 5K where I ran the 5K in 22:22. 2013 Nebo 1/2 (downhill) 1:36:15
Short-Term Running Goals:
Long-Term Running Goals:
Running throughout life with Tom. Staying healthy and happy.
Learn from others, learn from myself, work hard, do my best, enjoy!
On running and on life.....
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
~Thomas S. Monson~
Personal:
Going to St. George? Bag the hotel and stay in one of our condos instead!
Tom and I decided to sleep in a bit and get the run in later. That isn't always a good idea. It's hard to get out later. But we did it. I kept mine to 3 1/2 to watch the pains for today. No soreness in the knee and less pain in the arch of the foot than Saturday. So that is a good sign. I didn't want to push too hard though. I figure that today was a good day for some low and slow.
We went to the Payson Onion Days Parade. The weather was just perfect, (61 degrees), until we could see the flag coming down the street. Then it started pouring and pouring and hailing! It was crazy! We were sitting in a river flowing down past our feet. Our seats were a huge puddle! We were soaked through! We had to brave it out to see our son, Jansen, on the Icelandic float. We noticed that the temps dropped to 41 degrees quickly! We were sitting by a bank that had the temps on a sign. We watched as much as we could stand, but the hail actually hurt as it hit us and we were freezing in our soaked through jeans! So we piled in the the van with wet, wet chairs, blankets, jackets, clothes, hair and broken umbrellas and went off to find Jansen and come home to warm our bones!
The weather is nice now. We are planning on going to Thanksgiving Point to a luau tonight, so I hope we don't get a repeat of this morning!
It's exactly 12:00 noon and I just barely got my run in for the day. I was alone with my thoughts and the sunshine today. I feel more encouraged about my foot pain today than I did yesterday and I felt better yesterday than I did Saturday. However, Saturday's run was suppose to be 20, (I cut it to 16+), yesterday was only 3.5 and today 6 so I'm not sure how to compare the pain. I'm trying to wear old running shoes more in the day instead of flip flops in hoping that the arch support will help me out. Tom and I are going to call on a good friend who is a massage therapist and get some pointers on the things that are ailing us at the moment. SGM is just around the corner and we both want to make it there feeling our best.
We took our girls to the Thanksgiving Point Labor Day Luau last night. It was fun, but the lawn was wet from the pouring rain of the morning, so we sat in water again all night. It was a day of wet and cold, but fun!
Tom and I joined in with part of the Payson Canyon downhill group. We did the eight mile run instead of the 11 today. We have a 1/2 marathon here in SF this Saturday. We aren't sure how hard we will push ourselves for this one. I think I will try to keep it as a training run and not try to "race" it. I will just see how I feel that day. We will also be helping with some of the prep before and clean up after. Then I will be off to a stake Primary luncheon that I have to help at and clean up after. So as far as running my hardest on Saturday, I'm not sure. My biggest goal right now is to be at my best come October 4th! Today my foot didn't seem to give me much grief. yeah! :oD
Holy Cow! 68 degrees is hot to run in! I am use to the nice early morning temps but Tom and I decided to get a few extra needed zzzzs this morning. It looks like I had better get out in the heat a bit within the next few weeks or that St. George sunshine is going to bring me to my knees those last tough miles!
Last night Tom and I had our friend, Nate the Great massage therapist, come over to work through all our aches and pains. He spent about an hour and a half on each of us. We are planning on having him come over a few more times before the big day. Money well spent at this point of training.
Tom has the day off today. We just went out for a short, easy run. One, because we have a 1/2 marathon tomorrow and two, because Nate thought it would be good to keep it that way today.
We'll go get a temple session in while the kids are at school and hit the temple cafeteria for lunch.
Now....which button shall I push at the bottom here? And how long will we have to look at the lady with the arrow on her nose?
Spanish Fork 1/2 marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:47:39, Place overall: 21, Place in age division: 1
Easy Miles
Marathon Pace Miles
Threshold Miles
VO2 Max Miles
Total Distance
13.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
13.10
OK....so these are my didn'ts
warm up
cool down
stretch
pack water
take any Gu
These were my dids
run with Koby
run faster than I planned
feel WAY better than expected
place numero uno in my age division
Tom and I helped get the race packets together last night and then helped with some set up and packet pick up this morning. That made it hard to get the warm up in. Koby introduced himself to me and we knew we wanted similar times. So we lined up together. It was then, (just moments before the start), that I realized my water and gus are in the truck. Being involved with the set up threw me off a bit. I decided not to stress on it.
I was planning on getting 1:55 and coming in feeling really good. But that changed right from the beginning.
8:07
8:27
8:40
8:09
7:51 (Kellie S. was watching from the side after doing her own 15 miles and joined me for a bit. Thanks Kellie! Said hi to Clay watching from the sidelines also.)
8:39
8:18
7:41
8:17
8:08
8:07
7:58
8:01
1:09 (7:18)
I was very pleased that hardly anyone passed me. Unlike Hobble Creek where I felt like I got passed by 10-15 people in the last few miles.
At mile 12 I could tell Koby had a little more to give than me. I told him I'd see him at the finish line. It felt good and gave Koby and I a lot of hope for St. George. Thanks Koby!
Tom had a great race. Can you believe he can take 12th overall and only 4th in his age group?! Bummer!
Oh, and to all of you lurkers out there who come up and tell me you read my blog and others blogs....get on the blog already! You know who you are!
Great to meet JulieC today! Great job on your race!
